Random Stuff LXX
Kathy went to NYC, not too long ago, to see some friends. She and her friend Eric stood around Central Park all of one day to score tickets to Shakespeare in the Park. A college-age dude standing in line just behind them was singing the Narwhals song under his breath. When he finished the line “They’re the Jedi of the sea”, Kathy turned around, looked him right in the eye and growled “They’ll stop Cthulhu eatin’ ye!”, in her best pirate voice. The guy gaped at her, speechless. As the coup de grace she added: “It could be worse! Could be ‘Badger, badger, badger, badger….’”
She fried that dude’s brain. It took him a good minute or two to reboot. Here was someone twice his age who knew the Narwhals song by heart. And she knew it by heart because I played it for her more times than either of us would care to admit.
Kathy and I ate at in IHOP (International House of Pancakes) the other night. Not the sort of thing we usually do, but we were going to a movie next door to the place, and it was late enough-i.e., after 7 PM-that the usual dinner crowd was long gone. For a while now, IHOP has had a somewhat minimalist logo:
The rounded strokes of the letters and the heavily rounded P add a cute-friendly sort of informality. While I attacked my ham ‘n’ eggs (available anytime-I asked if I could have mine during the Renaissance, as per Steven Wright), I mused on why the P was dropped to lower-case position. Clearly it makes the body of the P line up nicely with the O and makes all the letters appear more uniform, but I wanted to believe there was more to it than that. Then I looked outside, at the sunlight streaming in the window, and saw this through the translucent awning:
The letters are all still readable, but now the logo says QOHI. That word is not well-formed in English, but might be in Arabic (transliteration to Roman letters), or perhaps in Hebrew.
A couple times in the past I’ve taken a logo and flipped that baby over. What happens when we take IHOP and spin it around 180 degrees?
DOHI. Homer Simpson probably likes this place.
We have just one orientation left. What do we get by flipping the IHOP logo vertically?
Clearly, this restaurant is staffed by people with really bad chronic colds. “Welgub to IHOB. *sniff*”
Someone with more creativity than common sense took bling-bling to its absolute limit, and beyond, by applying the spinning-hubcap principle to gold dentures. Spinning teeth?
These flashy yet sensible accessories were available only from “triplexgoldteeth.com”, regrettably now out of business. I can’t fathom why a product with such broad appeal wouldn’t make somebody’s fortune.
What were these people thinking? The first thing that came to mind when I saw this was that in order to wear these you’d pretty much have to cut off your upper lip, because obviously these babies would have a difficult time spinning if they got wet, especially with something viscous like saliva. And could you imagine eating with these things? No way. A liquid diet, plus a cup of olive oil every two weeks to keep the axles nice and lubricated.
(The ad above is actually several years old. I forgot about it soon after I first saw it, but was reminded of it just now when I saw this low-impact cat comb.)
She fried that dude’s brain. It took him a good minute or two to reboot. Here was someone twice his age who knew the Narwhals song by heart. And she knew it by heart because I played it for her more times than either of us would care to admit.
Kathy and I ate at in IHOP (International House of Pancakes) the other night. Not the sort of thing we usually do, but we were going to a movie next door to the place, and it was late enough-i.e., after 7 PM-that the usual dinner crowd was long gone. For a while now, IHOP has had a somewhat minimalist logo:
The rounded strokes of the letters and the heavily rounded P add a cute-friendly sort of informality. While I attacked my ham ‘n’ eggs (available anytime-I asked if I could have mine during the Renaissance, as per Steven Wright), I mused on why the P was dropped to lower-case position. Clearly it makes the body of the P line up nicely with the O and makes all the letters appear more uniform, but I wanted to believe there was more to it than that. Then I looked outside, at the sunlight streaming in the window, and saw this through the translucent awning:
The letters are all still readable, but now the logo says QOHI. That word is not well-formed in English, but might be in Arabic (transliteration to Roman letters), or perhaps in Hebrew.
A couple times in the past I’ve taken a logo and flipped that baby over. What happens when we take IHOP and spin it around 180 degrees?
DOHI. Homer Simpson probably likes this place.
We have just one orientation left. What do we get by flipping the IHOP logo vertically?
Clearly, this restaurant is staffed by people with really bad chronic colds. “Welgub to IHOB. *sniff*”
Someone with more creativity than common sense took bling-bling to its absolute limit, and beyond, by applying the spinning-hubcap principle to gold dentures. Spinning teeth?
These flashy yet sensible accessories were available only from “triplexgoldteeth.com”, regrettably now out of business. I can’t fathom why a product with such broad appeal wouldn’t make somebody’s fortune.
What were these people thinking? The first thing that came to mind when I saw this was that in order to wear these you’d pretty much have to cut off your upper lip, because obviously these babies would have a difficult time spinning if they got wet, especially with something viscous like saliva. And could you imagine eating with these things? No way. A liquid diet, plus a cup of olive oil every two weeks to keep the axles nice and lubricated.
(The ad above is actually several years old. I forgot about it soon after I first saw it, but was reminded of it just now when I saw this low-impact cat comb.)